Tag: help
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89: I Need You
I Need You, a track from the Help! album was George Harrison’s second original song for the Beatles (his first was Don’t Bother Me, and he also contributed You Like Me Too Much to the Help! album). George had written far fewer songs than Lennon and McCartney, and few would argue that Don’t Bother Me…
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114: You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away
You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away is a track from the Help! Album written by John Lennon. It is a close as Lennon ever came to directly imitating another artist (Bob Dylan), and he describes this song, like I’m A Loser before it, as belonging to his Dylan period. In the long term, the…
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115: Dizzy Miss Lizzy
Dizzy Miss Lizzy is the top-ranked (in this ranking) of the Beatles’ three Larry Williams covers (with 141: Bad Boy and 195:Slow Down). I think it’s fair to surmise that as Williams was among the most covered artists in the Beatles’ official recorded catalogue that he was an important influence. Lennon sings all three covers…
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130: You’re Going To Lose That Girl
You’re Going To Lose that Girl is another song from the excellent side one of the Help! album (I also covered The Night Before and Another Girl in the last few days). It was mainly written by John Lennon who takes the lead vocal, but likely includes important contributions from Paul McCartney. The song stands…
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134: Another Girl
Another Girl is another track from the excellent side one of the Help! album. As discussed a couple of days ago in the context of The Night Before, this is a sequence of relentlessly accessible and commercial songs which shows the Beatles complete mastery of pop. The sequence begins and ends with the hit singles…
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136: The Night Before
The Night Before is a track in the Help! album written by Paul McCartney. It is a bright, uptempo pop song with a very Beatley flavour combining an R’n’B/soul flavour with a strong call-response type vocal arrangement with lyrics that seem like an ironic answer to Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? This song was…
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156: I’ve Just Seen A Face
I’ve Just Seen A Face is an up-tempo love song written by Paul McCartney, a track on the Help! album. The folky, country feel of the track is part of a wider trend that started with Beatles for Sale, continuing through Help! and into the Rubber Soul album. On Help! itself, for example, Lennon’s You’ve…
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166: Tell Me What You See
It’s difficult to work up much enthusiasm for this track from the Beatles 1965 Help! album. It seems to have been written mainly by McCartney with input from Lennon. At least some of the lyrics come from Lennon, as explained in the Beatles Bible article (and also in a nearly contemporary paywalled article by Newsweek…
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170: You Like Me Too Much
You Like Me Too Much is a Harrison composition from the Help! album. It was his third Beatles original – Don’t Bother Me featured on With The Beatles, and he also had another (better) song on Help! – I Need You. So this was the first time George Harrison had contributed more than one song…
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172: It’s Only Love
It’s Only Love is a Lennon song from the Help! album. It’s interesting to read (via the beatlesbible.com article) that Lennon thought that “it was a lousy song. The lyrics were abysmal. I always hated that song.” I listened to it a few times while preparing this entry, before reading the article and quotes. Melodically…
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175: Act Naturally
Appearing on the Help! album, Act Naturally was one of the last covers included on the Beatles original official releases. By this stage in their career, the available recording and production technology had improved significantly and Act Naturally is also helped by a unironic/sympathetic arrangement – although it’s a Country & Western “pastiche”, the Beatles…